After practice Monday, Wolves president of basketball operations and coach Tom Thibodeau added his voice to the chorus of people remembering the impact Flip Saunders had on the organization.
Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of Saunders’ passing, which came less than five months after he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
The two were friends, and they shared a connection to the late Bill Musselman, who coached Saunders at the University of Minnesota and hired Thibodeau to be a part of his first staff with the Wolves decades ago.
Monday Thibodeau praised Saunders for putting together the young core talent of the team’s roster.